Original link: How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC / TheRegister.
Interesting.
I never did any of pre-PC basic. I never did any of the early PC Basic. I never did any VB6. But I have done some VBA, VBS, VB.NET and VMS Basic (which I prefer to call VAX Basic/DEC Basic/VSI Basic because the compiler has not changed - only the owner).